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Grease: the School Musical is a reality TV programme that appeared on TV at the end of August 2009 following on from the popular Hairspray: The School Musical. It was the result of a competition that started in 2008. The 1,000 schools were whittled down to 10 schools, then at this point filming started with the three judges. There was then a competition and dance off with the final 3 schools. Ray Quinn and Arlene Phillips appeared on the show as guests as well as Seth Rudeski. In the end Wallasey school on the Wirral won. The school went to London's West End to perform a shortened rehearsed version of Grease in the Novello theatre. They showed a series of one hour shows and two added half hour shows. The performance took place on the 9 August 2009. Many of the cast then went on to receive promotions to drama schools. The final show was viewed by 1 million people.

Experience and enjoy in a brand new way the greatest works of classical music, from the Baroque era to the Modern period, thanks to a new series of audiovisual concert guides, Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music. Schumann's Piano concerto, Mahler's Lied von der Erde, Ravel's Bolero or Bach's Brandenburg concertos, all the classical music's gems are performed by internationally praised artists, including Martha Argerich, Mariss Jansons, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado.

Sofia's Diary is a British drama web series distributed through the social networking platform Bebo. Based on the Portuguese series of the same name, which debuted in 2003, it follows the life of a teenage girl named Sofia, portrayed by Rachel Hyde-Harvey. In 2008, the series was acquired by Channel Five, becoming the second web series to be broadcast on British television. Its first two seasons aired on Fiver. After an eight-month hiatus, Sofia's Diary returned to Bebo on May 29, 2009, with a six-week third season. Unlike the previous seasons, new episodes were released twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. The series was initially sponsored by Sure Girl, while the third season was produced in partnership with Transport for London to support a road safety awareness campaign aimed at teenagers.

One unsuspecting London high school is presented with the challenge of a lifetime: to audition, rehearse and perform a West End worthy performance of 'Hairspray' in one summer holiday.

Eva, ganz mein Fall is a German legal comedy-drama series which aired on the ZDF network from 2002 to 2005. The series was produced by Rita Nasser and directed by Stefan Bartmann. The series stars Lara Joy Koerner in the title role as a young lawyer working in the fictional Munich Hardenberg and Hardenberg, with other young lawyers whose lives and loves were eccentric, humorous and dramatic.

Kerching! was a children's comedy drama on CBBC. It follows the lives of teenagers Taj, Danny and Seymour. The programme revolves around Taj's website, Rudeboy, and his money-making schemes. The fictional Rudeboy website sells ringtones, computer games, concert tickets, designer clothes and other merchandise and is central to the plot of the programme. The title of the show comes from Taj, Danny and Seymor's catchphrase "Kerching!", used when they make money through their business schemes. Taj aims to make one million pounds for his hard-working mother, which he finally does in the last episode of the show.

The Battle of Stalingrad, which cost the lives of at least a million German soldiers, Red Army troops and Soviet civilians, was the bloodiest of the decisive battles in the "war of extermination" which Hitler had unleashed. This three-part documentary, employing previously unreleased film footage and brutally frank statements from survivors on both sides, explains exactly how the catastrophe came about and describes the gruesome consequences of the battle for the soldiers and the inhabitants of the city.

“Highspeed – The Leather Cops” is a team of four young police officers who make up a special unit of the North Rhine-Westphalia police force. This fast-moving, interdepartmental, and highly trained unit usually operates in plain clothes. Through action-packed operations, the officers bring an end to hostage situations, extortion cases, and kidnappings.

A look at the impact of television on British culture.

Drammi Medicali, the latest effort by Maccio Capatonda, brings to the screen buckets of surreal irony launched by a medical team of an Italian hospital. Led by the head doctor, Dr. Giolsot, a squad of doctors and paramedics, miserable great men and great miserable women of science, fight to save the lives of patients, even at the cost of their own lives... of the patients (obviously). A great television opera, with the unpleasant participation of Julio Hammurabi, aka Elio.

Armando Iannucci's alternative take on some of the events that have defined the past 12 months.

Questa casa non è un albergo is an Italian television series.

A children's television series that was broadcast in the United Kingdom between October 21, 2005, and January 13, 2006. The show marked stand-up comedian Harry Hill's first move into children's television. As of 2012, the show is still regularly being repeated on Cartoon Network, with up to three broadcasts a day, despite only thirteen episodes ever being made. The show was not only the starting point for Harry Hill's children television career but also the start of Actor Lewis Bittle's entire career. After his small part on the opening titles for the show's weekly punchline title sequence, his acting name shot up faster than a NASA rocket.

Tracking the main events of World War II is a truly fascinating experience, and with the help of remarkable archive footage you can literally see for yourself exactly what happened, and when. From the early battles right through to the complexities of the endgame, this extensive series of 24 programmes will help shine a spotlight on a period of history that should never be forgotten. Each episode spans a few months of the conflict, giving the viewer an incredible level of detail into each and every event. From Adolf Hitler marching his troops into Poland on the 1st of September 1939 to the freezing attacks along the Eastern Front; The sweeping Pacific Naval clashes to that fateful day on the 2nd of September 1945 when World War II was brought to a swift end with the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Leningrad, besieged by the Germans. Monuments and majestic domes of cathedrals are covered with camouflage netting, destroyed buildings, abandoned trams. Bombs and shells are raining down from the sky almost non-stop, day and night, turning the surviving houses into ruins and spreading death. The survivors, homeless people, are suffocated by hunger.

Five friends, Travis, D, Rez, Ange and J are free to do whatever they want. They're in control. Flying high. No rules. Good times... but you know it, the trouble is life gets in the way and that's deadly.

Live parody of the popular science entertainment TV show Brainiac: Science Abuse.

Princess Nikki is a reality television show that stars former Big Brother 7 UK house mate, Nikki Grahame. It ran on Wednesday nights between 10:00 - 10:30pm on the digital television channel E4 from 6 September 2006, for a total runtime of 30 minutes. The show was devised by Endemol, the company that also devised Big Brother. It was narrated by the presenter and comedian, Alex Zane. The format saw Nikki attempt several jobs on each show, which included various unpleasant tasks such as rubbish collecting, deep sea fishing, and waste management. The show's premise was to see whether or not Nikki would perform the tasks given to her and keep her job for a day, or whether she would quit or be sacked due to her infamous tantrums. The concept of the show was taken from one of the tasks Nikki undertook while in the Big Brother House. During the task, she was assigned as Big Brother's personal assistant and had to carry out various duties, which often resulted in Nikki throwing a tantrum and refusing to comply. The show was often compared to The Simple Life. The theme music for the programme has been adapted from the 1982 hit single Hey Mickey! by Toni Basil, with the lyrics "Hey Nikki!" used as a replacement.

In this six-part fly-on-the-wall documentary series, we follow Gordon Ramsay through the most intense year of his life as he copes with his celebrity status and juggles cooking with the ever increasing demands on his time from beyond the kitchen.

Big Brother Panto is a special series of Big Brother that brought together ten housemates from previous Big Brothers to produce the pantomime Cinderella. It aired from 20 December 2004 to 5 January 2005 on the Channel 4 network. The pantomime performed, Cinderella, was written by Jonathan Harvey, who wrote the sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme. It was performed at a theatre near to The Lodge.

A naive young woman moves into the mansion that belongs to her new husband, a rich widower. She soon realizes the memory of his deceased first wife maintains a grip on her husband, as well as the staff of servants.

Just the Two of Us is a British television reality singing contest hosted by Vernon Kay and Tess Daly. The first series of the BBC show saw eight celebrities team up with professional singers and sing each night in duets, with one pair being eliminated every night. After each performance they were judged by a panel of industry experts. The basic format of the show was first used in another BBC programme, Strictly Come Dancing.

In an unspecified location in the French Basque Country, a man with his back turned writes a note on a piece of paper: it is an order to "kidnap a PP councilor," giving a 48-hour ultimatum linked to the transfer of prisoners to prisons in the Basque Country. If the government does not comply, the hostage will be killed. July 10, 1997, 2:10 p.m. Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido, a PP councilor in Ermua, eats lunch at home with his mother and leaves for work in Eibar as he does every day. Miguel Ángel is approached by a woman who manages to get him to accompany her a few meters before forcing him at gunpoint into a car driven by her accomplice.

Karol: The Pope, The Man is a 2006 TV miniseries chronicling Pope John Paul II's life as pope in flashbacks from October 22, 1978's papal inauguration to his death in 2005 and was directed by Giacomo Battiato. It is the sequel to the 2005 TV miniseries Karol: A Man Who Became Pope, which portrayed John Paul's life before the papacy and ended on October 16, 1978, the day of his papal election.

Frog is a peaceful frog settled in the middle of a pond. Everything would be perfect... If it weren’t for the relentless Crazy Ferret, who will stop at nothing to devour her.

Alan Bennett re-lives his upbringing in Leeds in a series of talks, both amusing and touching.

Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet. For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of photographers with the world's first colour camera system and dispatched them across the globe. Their films and 72,000 photographs offer a unique insight into the formative years of the 20th Century.

Ross Kemp on Gangs is a BAFTA award-winning documentary series that was broadcast on Sky1 from 16 October 2006 to 22 September 2008. On 20 May 2007 the series won a BAFTA award for best factual series. The show is hosted by actor Ross Kemp, best known for his role of Grant Mitchell in the show EastEnders where Kemp's character was involved in several storylines involving gangs. On the show Kemp travels around the world talking to gang members, locals who have been affected by gang violence, and the authorities who are attempting to combat the problem. In each episode he attempts to establish contacts within the gangs who can arrange interviews with the gangs' leaders.

Cat Deely hosts the epic 'live' final of Britain's Got the Pop Factor, where musical acts R Wayne, 2 Up 2 Down and Geraldine battle it out for their own record deal and an automatic entry to the show Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice. Nicki Chapman, Neil Fox and Pete Waterman will judge their efforts, but who wins?

15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, with them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.

Dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.

Eight-part history of the Christian faith, looking at its origins, development and turbulent past. High-profile British personalities examine a religion that has particular resonance for them.

Billy Connolly is back with the fourth in his massively popular World Tour series. This time Billy journey's to the other side of the globe to New Zealand, a country he has been visiting since the 1970s and of which he is immensely fond. Billy's extraordinary journey covers the length and breadth of New Zealand and is mixed with the best of his comedy from sell-out shows around the country.Filmed in 2004 during the first leg of his Too Old To Die Young Tour this series is a stunning journey around New Zealand's two islands from the Southern-most tip to the far north where the Tasman Sea meets the Pacific. Along the way Billy takes in Maori traditions, sand paintings, whale-watching, a 90 mile beach and much more to give us a fascinating insight into the spectacular scenery, culture and people of this amazing country.

Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions was a children's TV show, presented by Ed Petrie and his cactus companion, Oucho. Before this program Ed and Oucho were CBBC office presenters and favoured by many children. The premise of the show was children sending in designs of inventions, with one each episode being created. The inventions in the show were created by Artem Ltd, a company that creates props and special effects for TV and film productions.

After the shocking assassination of a labor lawyer, an Italian anti-terrorism unit races against time to stop the new incarnation of the Red Brigades from killing their next target — and strike fear at the heart of the State.

A working class single mother appeals to send her son to the best state school in her area. When the headmaster of a local private school hears of her campaign, he is intrigued, and offers her son a place at his school, betting that he can turn the boy's life around.

'Fight for Life' was a series, using new technology, which explores the human body and its fight for survival in life threatening situations, with computer-generated imagery and specially shot footage. The series explains the six stages in life: Birth, Childhood, Teenagers, Prime of Life, The Middle Years and The Final Years.

A look at football violence across the world

A reboot of the wonderful British sketch show "Alas Smith and Jones", where the creators and lead actors of go over some of there favorite sketches and episodes throughout the show's 10 season history.